The peeling paint, rusty chairs, polystyrene cups, cracked formica and general grubbiness at this beach café may have put me off. Why can't we do better than this? It's embarrassing! (I couldn't help but compare it with all those simple clean attractive cafes in yesterday's video of Denmark.)

However the walk along miles of lovely beach in bright sunshine, watching flocks of Canada geese on the sparkling water and listening to their honking calls on the cold wind was invigorating. The lovely colours of sea and sand and views of Arran, the autumn colours - there was lots to enjoy.

Seeing as you provided no pictures I looked it up for myself - what a lovely place, no wonder you were enchanted - minus the beach café of course.

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Freda

13/10/2015 02:16:39 pm

It is a lovely green and fertile island Elaine.

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Madeleine

13/10/2015 02:27:07 am

Oh, I'm silly! I didn't know what Hygge was, and thought it was a type of whiskey maybe!! Just watched the video now, what a lovely concept. And I like the way the Danish have taken something not very pleasant like using a laundromat and combined it with a cozy cafe experience.

Why not extract as much pleasure as possible from life? Perhaps this is another reason that Copenhagen is said to be top on the happiness scale.

Madeleine.x

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Freda

13/10/2015 02:17:34 pm

I was impressed with the Laundromat/café too..

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cathy

13/10/2015 12:50:02 pm

I didn't know what Hygge was either...I thought it might be sheep stomach or something like that. Discovered I couldn't have been more wrong. I have been to Tivoli Gardens years (& years) ago & still remember all the lights.